Quotes About Structure

Generally, management of many is the same as management of few. It is a matter of organization.

Rending me is an insight rendered by Mark Doty: "death's deep in the structure of things, and we didn't put it there." The vision of dying as a disarmed surrender imbued Rilke with the conviction that "We need, in love, to practice only this: / letting each other go," a difficult discipline because of the uniqueness of each living creature.

A good reader pays attention to everything. The surface of the prose. The structure of the book. The tense. The point of view. Perhaps to those even before the characters. Then comes the setting. The story can often come last.

Quando faço uma fotografia, escreve Siskind, quero que seja um objeto onovo, completo e autosuficiente, cuja condição básica é a ordem. Para Cartier-Bresson, tirar fotografias é encontrar a estrutura do mundo, deleitar-se com o prazer puro da forma, revelar que em todo este caos, há ordem.

We are not botanists. We are artists. Suggest nature, but conventionalize it. Stylize it. Simplify it to its contour lines to convey structure.

High school, college, the office, evil cults, everywhere you go, there's that social hierarchy to contend with.

That's not how families are structured. In families, he realized, children are added to, not superseded. The addition of a child is not a betrayal of previous or current children.

High-level creative exchange depends on both hierarchical and fluid power relationships.

Any system that focuses on order at the exclusion of disorder soon becomes a rigid, homogeneous equilibrium system where no change is likely or even possible.

There's something very satisfying about numbers. Numbers are what they are. They are very straightforward. Unlike people.

When I write now I do not invent situation, characters, or actions, but rather structures and discursive forms, textual groupings which are combined according to secret affinities among themselves, as in architecture or the plastic arts.

Beliefs are rigid thoughts. Beliefs are thoughts that get repeated enough to take on a kind of internal structure. No belief is the truth; it is only a belief.

Architecture domesticates limitless space and enables us to inhabit it [...]

design is so important because chaos is so hard

Science is built up with facts, as a house is with stones. But a collection of facts is no more a science than a heap of stones is a house.

Virtue and flourishing are both central in it, but neither is a basis or foundation from which other parts of the theory can be derived, nor do they jointly form such a foundation. Rather, the theory is holistic in structure; the different parts are mutually supportive.

Architecture is a visual art, and the buildings speak for themselves.

We need to be organized. Organization renders any goal reachable.

I like to build houses out of playing cards.

You cannot disconnect the form from the material - the material informs the form.

The book is there for inspiration and as a foundation, the fundamentals on which to build.

In business terms, if you take over a company and oust its CEO or fire a divisional chief, you run the place. But in institutional terms, as it happens, it doesn't at all work that way.

I'm a big believer in institutions.

Equality means nothing unless incorporated into the institutions.